Consider benefits of having a job

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Aug 29, 2008 at 12:01 AM

Consider benefits of having a job

Consider benefits of having a job

The efforts to organize the Eagle manufacturing company reminded me of a list that was published in The Standard-Times several years ago of the manufacturing companies that had left New Bedford over the years.

Many of them were driven out because of union activity. No doubt workers should be treated well. Sewing can be dangerous, but the machines do not injure people if used properly by the operator. The 300 workers should consider the benefits of having jobs in an area that has lost thousands of jobs when companies moved elsewhere.